Hello - I have had a partial abdominal hysterectomy in July, 2010. At first things seemed to be healing fine, but then around September 2 months after, my incision started hurting me. Very sensitive to touch it or have anything like clothing touching it or rubbing on it. It hurts to touch it even now. Then in October, something happened where I started getting shooting pains around my pelvic area above my pubic bone and around the groin area. They just come on kind of random, but can hurt bad enough to make me stop walking and grab at that area. It seems to be worse if I try and exercise as well, like walking fast or riding a bike (this seems to hurt even more). I cant sit for any length of time either as it starts to hurt to sit from pressure. Wearing anything that puts pressure on my lower abdomen makes me ach so badly.
Any thoughts? I am now trying some patches with Lidocain on them to see if that works for the incision but it is not helping with the other pain. Any thoughts!!

Hi,
Welcome to the forum and I am glad to help you out. Your concern is regarding the severe pelvic pain that you are having. There are many possibilities to your symptoms. Firstly, it can be pelvic inflammatory disease which can be caused by an infection of the pelvic organs. As you are a female, so this possibility is high.

It can also be due to fibroid uterus or ovarian cysts. Ultrasound abdomen and cervical swabs are needed to rule them out. Other possibilities are inflammatory bowel disease, bowel obstruction, irritable bowel syndrome, kidney obstruction or pyelonephritis, psoas abscess and volvulus (twisting of the sigmoid part of the large bowel on itself). Investigations like ultrasound abdomen, CT abdomen and colonoscopy are required to confirm a diagnosis. My advice is to consult a physician/ gynecologist and get it evaluated.

It is very difficult to precisely confirm a diagnosis without examination and investigations and the answer is based on the medical information provided. For exact diagnosis, you are requested to consult your doctor. I sincerely hope that helps. Take care.

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